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Big picture on Alzheimer’s is missing some pieces
Subtle changes that contribute to cognitive decline could be flying under the radar.
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Researchers have identified more than 200 proteins that, when misfolded in the brain, seemed to be linked to declining cognition.
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Anjana Ahuja
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For any crime, there is always an early suspect.
For Alois Alzheimer, a Bavarian pathologist who sought to understand the human brain, one paranoid patient’s early memory loss was plainly caused by the peculiar protein clumps found in her brain after death.
